Re: [PATCH] hfs: if match_strdup() fails to allocate memory in parse_options(), don't blow up the kernel.

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:12 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
> diff --git a/fs/hfs/super.c b/fs/hfs/super.c
> index 32de44e..221e314 100644
> --- a/fs/hfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/hfs/super.c
> @@ -297,6 +297,10 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, struct hfs_sb_info *hsb)
>  				return 0;
>  			}
>  			p = match_strdup(&args[0]);
> +			if (!p) {
> +				printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: mem alloc failed in match_strdup()\n");
> +				return 0;
> +			}
>  			hsb->nls_disk = load_nls(p);
>  			if (!hsb->nls_disk) {
>  				printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: unable to load codepage \"%s\"\n", p);
> @@ -311,6 +315,10 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, struct hfs_sb_info *hsb)
>  				return 0;
>  			}
>  			p = match_strdup(&args[0]);
> +			if (!p) {
> +				printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: memory allocation failed in match_strdup()\n");
> +				return 0;
> +			}
>  			hsb->nls_io = load_nls(p);
>  			if (!hsb->nls_io) {
>  				printk(KERN_ERR "hfs: unable to load iocharset \"%s\"\n", p);
> 

Using different strings in the printk wastes memory.